Premium upgrade timeline ILR

[paru.org]

dear fahadi,

i gualify for ilr on 5.12.2016,
thx for sharing that link,
if possible can u share the link where u said that in this forum many has successfully got ilr for early applications, i could not find any threads,
also i have sent u PM pls check

many thx
if possible

dear fahadi,
u r doing early application before qualifying period, m in same boat, i am short of 21 days, i met 3 famous solicitors in last week and all advised to 1st go for any FLR FP or O or flr LR application and when time comletes then to vary that application to set lr ??they say ho will consider date of application not date when decision is made when they decide that application ,plz take some solicited advice?? any members or senior gurus // who successfully applied in this forum for set lr before qualifying period plz share ur experience ??many thx

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Hey Paru
I too have met a few solicitors but got mixed responses. Said that, I have decided to send an early application because 2 known solicitors and some members of this group told and shared their experiences. What the solicitors are telling you isn't completely true. If it is, ask them to show you where does it say that on the guidance or anywhere else? Said that, it is indeed a safer option(but more expensive). So yeh, decision is yours buddy!

I'd advise you to go to the below link where KhanW gave some very good advice to me and also a link that he shared. Do fead it! Might help you make up your mind
http://www.immigrationboards.com/indefi ... l#p1410655

Btw, when do you apply for ILR?

P.s: I know that you're after a SOLID answer but trust me we aren't getting one because both options have been tried and tested. The forum is filled with stories similar to ours. Just make the decision and go with it I guess

[fahadii123]

Here are a few that might help;

http://www.immigrationboards.com/indefi ... 26304.html

http://www.immigrationboards.com/indefi ... 24909.html

http://www.immigrationboards.com/indefi ... 28463.html

http://www.immigrationboards.com/indefi ... 01788.html

http://www.immigrationboards.com/indefi ... 33016.html

dear fahadi,

i gualify for ilr on 5.12.2016,
thx for sharing that link,
if possible can u share the link where u said that in this forum many has successfully got ilr for early applications, i could not find any threads,
also i have sent u PM pls check

many thx
if possible

dear fahadi,
u r doing early application before qualifying period, m in same boat, i am short of 21 days, i met 3 famous solicitors in last week and all advised to 1st go for any FLR FP or O or flr LR application and when time comletes then to vary that application to set lr ??they say ho will consider date of application not date when decision is made when they decide that application ,plz take some solicited advice?? any members or senior gurus // who successfully applied in this forum for set lr before qualifying period plz share ur experience ??many thx

[
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Hey Paru
I too have met a few solicitors but got mixed responses. Said that, I have decided to send an early application because 2 known solicitors and some members of this group told and shared their experiences. What the solicitors are telling you isn't completely true. If it is, ask them to show you where does it say that on the guidance or anywhere else? Said that, it is indeed a safer option(but more expensive). So yeh, decision is yours buddy!

I'd advise you to go to the below link where KhanW gave some very good advice to me and also a link that he shared. Do fead it! Might help you make up your mind
http://www.immigrationboards.com/indefi ... l#p1410655

Btw, when do you apply for ILR?

P.s: I know that you're after a SOLID answer but trust me we aren't getting one because both options have been tried and tested. The forum is filled with stories similar to ours. Just make the decision and go with it I guess

[raj2323]

All,
Received my approval letter today. Below is the timeline for the whole process. Thank you very much for the support and info in this forum. Really helpful. Postal premium upgrade do work but will need to wait nearly 4 weeks from the provisional acceptance email until a decision could be made. timeline as below. thanks.
APPLICATION SENT 18/08/2016 THURSDAY
PAYMENT TAKEN 23/08/2016 TUESDAY
confirmation email received 31/08/2016
BRP letter date 30/08/2016 received on 1/9/16
BRP done 02/09/2016
Premium postal upgrade 28/09/2016 application+payment form sent- due to urgent travel on 27/10/16
Provisionally accepted 29/09/2016
Auto generated 30/09/2016 email saying decision can take up to 6 months
Premium upgrade payment taken 13/10/2016
Decision confirmation email received 20/10/2016
Received approval letter and passport 22/10/2016

My visa history
04/09/2006 student visa granted
13/09/2006 entered UK
Oct-09 renewed student visa, rejected
2010 appeal rejected, upper tribunal accepted- rejection due to my birth certificate is in Malaysian language and not been translated and certified
Dec 2010 received student visa for 3 months until February 2011
Feb-11 student visa extension rejected, appeal rejected, higher tribunal rejected- same reason even though birth certificate supplied with translated copy.
Jul-11 while on student visa appeal, applied for PSW as I've completed my degree
Feb-12 PSW for 2 years
Feb-14 Tier 2 until Feb 17

[KhanNW]

Please share here if someone requested the premium upgrade of their postal application so the people can have an idea of how long it takes from request to a decision.

Premium upgrade requested: 19-09-2016
Upgrade provisionally accepted: 20-09-2016
As of 27-09-2016, no money has been deducted. I will update if/when I get a response from premium upgrade team.

By the grace of God, I have been granted ILR.

I am very thankful of Raj, Fahad, Eddiemurphy, Sarah and all other members who assured in this difficult time. Thank you so much for your best wishes. Bellow is detailed time line.

Application sent: 18-08-2016
Recieved: 19-08-2016
Bankers draft cleared: 25-08-2016
Acknowledgment of application e-mail: 08-09-2016
Biometric letter received: 09-09-2016
Biometric enrolled: 10-09-2016
Premium upgrade request: 19-09-2016 @ 08:00AM
Premium request accepted: 20-09-2016 @ 08:57AM
(27-09-2016 enquired about delay in decision and told to wait)
Money deducted and file received at Liverpool PSC: 13-10-2016 @ 10:00
Decision made e-mail recieved: 20-10-2016 @ 03:02PM
Documents returned: 22-10-2016 @ 12:45PM (Saturday)

Thank you

[sarah888]

congratualtions both of you!

[eddiemurphy]

Great news.Many Many Congratulations to khanNW and raj on your well deserving ILR. I wish you guys all the very best for future life. But please do keep an eye on the forum now and then as your first hand experience and valuable advice could be useful to other forum members.

[KhanNW]

Thank you Eddiemurphy and Sarah

[raj2323]

Thank you all. Hope all of you get the good news soon..

[eddiemurphy]

Just had an email from premium upgrade team I am a bit confused hopefully some forum member can shed some light.

Dear Sir

On review of your application we are unable to consider it for a Premium Upgrade within the agreed service time after taking the £400 top up fee.
Therefore the £400 fee has been refunded and your application will continue to be considered on the postal route once returned to the postal team.
We apologise for this inconvenience.

Kind Regards
Premium Upgrade Team

[KhanNW]

Just had an email from premium upgrade team I am a bit confused hopefully some forum member can shed some light.

Dear Sir

On review of your application we are unable to consider it for a Premium Upgrade within the agreed service time after taking the £400 top up fee.
Therefore the £400 fee has been refunded and your application will continue to be considered on the postal route once returned to the postal team.
We apologise for this inconvenience.

Kind Regards
Premium Upgrade Team

Hi Eddiemurphy,

Sorry to hear this. I haven't seen any case like this. I thought they only deduct money once they are satisfied with the documents provided. Have you tried to send them e-mail regarding this? They don't reply regarding updates on the applications but did replied a few people on why they did not accepted their upgrade request. As they accepted the request and also deducted money, it is worth sending an e-mail to clearify. Thanks

[eddiemurphy]

Thanks khanNW for advice. I did email premium team today to ask for the reason as the very first email I had from them which confirmed provisional approval also confirmed that upon arrival of my application they will review it and if eligible only then they will process the payment. I am waiting for a reply from premium team now.

[sarah888]

Finally received my |LR approval letter and didn't even have to go through premium upgrade! This is why I never had money withdrawn etc. YAY finally free from the HO for a while.

[KhanNW]

Finally received my |LR approval letter and didn't even have to go through premium upgrade! This is why I never had money withdrawn etc. YAY finally free from the HO for a while.

Congratulations Sarah

[Professionhuman]

This is regarding time scale for postal application .
I just got a short query about application
How long it's taking nowadays for postal application to be process .I am aware as normal they saying it's taking up to six month.

It has been two month since waiting for outcome of postal application.

Plz advice about post to premium services as well.

Regards

[chelsea_arv]

This is regarding time scale for postal application .
I just got a short query about application
How long it's taking nowadays for postal application to be process .I am aware as normal they saying it's taking up to six month.

It has been two month since waiting for outcome of postal application.

Plz advice about post to premium services as well.

Regards

We applied on June 23rd and have had no luck so far. Hopefully it will not take 6 months. I have noticed other people are getting their's in 5 months! Holding thumbs!

[KhanNW]

Hi,
For the people applying for premium upgrade, I was able to find that the delay in processing of application once accepted by Premium upgrade team was due to transit issues. It has affected 35 applicants since the service was started (I was one of them) and other 200 applicants got their decisions in 5 working days. They are aware of transit delays and intended to improve by reviewing the causes of delays.

On average, 3 applications were accepted each day (Mon-Thursday)

[suriips450]

My timescale: (ILR approved for 1 main and 1 dependent applicants)
Tier 2 G 5yrs stay to ILR (Irrelevant: 2006-2007:Student visa, 2008-2011 July: 1yr IGS and 2yrs PSW)
Dependent is based 2yrs rule.

Posted: 28/07/2016
Fee taken: 02/08/106
Biometric letter received: 08/08/2016
Attended for Biometrics: 08/08/2016
Premium upgrade request provisionally accepted: 13/10/2016
(Note: Tried sending email request for premium upgrade since 04/10/2016)
Premium Upgrade fee taken: 22/10/2016
Additional documents required letter sent by UKVI, Liverpool: 25/10/2016
Sent additional documents next day 1pm guaranteed: 26/10/2016
(Note: My first Employer went in Administration and they didn't notify HO when was my last day with them hence they wanted to check whether I was with new Employer within 60 days from end date at first sponsor, luckily I did have letter form Administration company with end date and payslips too.)
Decision made email received: 28/10/2016 @11:48am
Decision letter and documents arrived: 29/10/2016 @12:10pm

Prior to premium upgrade acceptance, I made a compliant to UKVI stating that they are not accepting my upgrade request albeit I been sending requests right at 8am, I had a call from UKVI 03/11/2016 asking can we close this compliant please, I said customers don't know where they stand with this upgrade service, need to improve and then closed the ticket down.

[paru.org]

congrats,
how did u register ur complaint, over the phone or ?? send me link pls if online??thx

My timescale: (ILR approved for 1 main and 1 dependent applicants)
Tier 2 G 5yrs stay to ILR (Irrelevant: 2006-2007:Student visa, 2008-2011 July: 1yr IGS and 2yrs PSW)
Dependent is based 2yrs rule.

Posted: 28/07/2016
Fee taken: 02/08/106
Biometric letter received: 08/08/2016
Attended for Biometrics: 08/08/2016
Premium upgrade request provisionally accepted: 13/10/2016
(Note: Tried sending email request for premium upgrade since 04/10/2016)
Premium Upgrade fee taken: 22/10/2016
Additional documents required letter sent by UKVI, Liverpool: 25/10/2016
Sent additional documents next day 1pm guaranteed: 26/10/2016
(Note: My first Employer went in Administration and they didn't notify HO when was my last day with them hence they wanted to check whether I was with new Employer within 60 days from end date at first sponsor, luckily I did have letter form Administration company with end date and payslips too.)
Decision made email received: 28/10/2016 @11:48am
Decision letter and documents arrived: 29/10/2016 @12:10pm

Prior to premium upgrade acceptance, I made a compliant to UKVI stating that they are not accepting my upgrade request albeit I been sending requests right at 8am, I had a call from UKVI 03/11/2016 asking can we close this compliant please, I said customers don't know where they stand with this upgrade service, need to improve and then closed the ticket down.

[suriips450]

I made a complaint by writing to this complaints@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk which you can find at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisat ... -procedure

Thanks

[snoopy01]

Any recent experience of the PEO upgrade? Thanks

[eddiemurphy]

Hi guys! Just to update all of you about my timeline and to also give some hope to folks who are waiting for decision on their ILR application. My timeline is as follows

Postal application Set (LR) 6-09-2016
Fee deducted. 8-09-2016
Biometric letter received 17-09-2016 dated 15-09-2016
Biometric info submitted. 17-09-2016
Premium upgrade request sent. 17-09-2016
Automated response received. 17-09-2016
Email to confirm provisional 19-09-2016
acceptance
Enquired about progress by email 27-09-2016

Reply received same day that they are still waiting for application to arrive at Liverpool PSC from storage
Sent numerous email since then out of frustration to check progress
Finally money deducted £400 20-10-2016
for premium service

Money refunded and application 24-10-2016
sent back to postal route for normal
Processing

Waiting game started after that but I received my ILR
Today 11-01-2017 dated 9-01-2017. That is the end of my long journey to ILR I wish everyone waiting for decision all the very best. Only shared the timeline to give you hope that even if your premium upgrade request gets rejected please don't lose hope. Take care guys

[masterpeas]

My timescale: (ILR approved for 1 main and 1 dependent applicants)
Tier 2 G 5yrs stay to ILR (Irrelevant: 2006-2007:Student visa, 2008-2011 July: 1yr IGS and 2yrs PSW)
Dependent is based 2yrs rule.

Posted: 28/07/2016
Fee taken: 02/08/106
Biometric letter received: 08/08/2016
Attended for Biometrics: 08/08/2016
Premium upgrade request provisionally accepted: 13/10/2016
(Note: Tried sending email request for premium upgrade since 04/10/2016)
Premium Upgrade fee taken: 22/10/2016
Additional documents required letter sent by UKVI, Liverpool: 25/10/2016
Sent additional documents next day 1pm guaranteed: 26/10/2016
(Note: My first Employer went in Administration and they didn't notify HO when was my last day with them hence they wanted to check whether I was with new Employer within 60 days from end date at first sponsor, luckily I did have letter form Administration company with end date and payslips too.)
Decision made email received: 28/10/2016 @11:48am
Decision letter and documents arrived: 29/10/2016 @12:10pm

Prior to premium upgrade acceptance, I made a compliant to UKVI stating that they are not accepting my upgrade request albeit I been sending requests right at 8am, I had a call from UKVI 03/11/2016 asking can we close this compliant please, I said customers don't know where they stand with this upgrade service, need to improve and then closed the ticket down.

how did you make the complaint please and where? could you please share the link if online?

I have been trying to request upgrade for premium for last week at 8:00am on the dot, only received auto-response after each email! so disappointed with their service....